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SHADE v. DOWNING ET AL. (1948)

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SHADE v. DOWNING ET AL.
Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: February 11, 1948
Decided: April 5, 1948
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
6-3
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed

SHADE v. DOWNING ET AL. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 5, 1948. The case was argued before the court on February 11, 1948.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Oklahoma Eastern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Indians (other than pertains to state jurisdiction over)
  • Petitioner: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 333 U.S. 586
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Douglas

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as liberal.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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